Soap-powder canister.



PATENTED MAY 21, 1907.

' H. o. FAIROHILD. SOAP POWDER GANISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oruuon HENRY C. FAIRCI-IILD, OEBRIDGEPORT,CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE FAIRCHILD & SHELTON COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT,CONNECTICUT, A

CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

SOAP-POWDER CANISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1907.

Application filed May 31,1906. Serial No. 319,649.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY C. FAIROHILD,

a citizen of theUnitedStates, residing at Bridgeport, in the county ofFairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Soap-Powder Canisters; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled'in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to soap powder canisters and consists in certainnovel combinations of parts and arrangements of parts, such as will behereinafter fully described and then particularly pointed out in theclaims which conclude this application.

In the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this applicationFigure 1 is a central vertical sectional elevationFig. 2 is a sectionsimilar to Fig. 1 but taken in a plane at right angles thereto--Fig. 3 aside elevation of my improved canister with the agitator leversectioned'away-Fig. 4 a view similar to Fig. 3- but showing a slightlymodified form of my improvement, and Fig. 5 a bottom view.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures ofthe drawing.

The object of my invention is to improve upon the construction shown anddescribed in Letters Patent N 0. 464,315, issued December 1, 1891, toFrederick S. Fairchild. In this patented construction verticallydisposed agitator rods extended up into the canister and were providedwith laterally extending fingers, and. when these rods were operated upand down the fingers would pass through the powdered soap so as toagitate the same and cause it to settle down toward the dischargeopening. This construction has been found to be very efficient so longas the soap powder remained in a thoroughly dry state, but when saidpowder became even slightly impregnated with moisture the verticallymoving slide rods and agitator fingers would simply cut a path throughthe soap and the latter would merely become packed more densely withoutsettling down toward the discharge opening.

. The object of my'present invention is to cure these defects byimparting to the agitator additional movements at right angles tothevertical movements.

1 is the canister, 2 and 3 upper and lower crosswebswithln thecanister,'4 the main vertically disposed slide rod extending throughsaid webs and guided thereby, 5 are agitator fingers extending laterallyfrom said rod,

6 is a vertically disposed agitator rod having extending laterallytherefrom fingers 7,

8 is a cross bar beneath the lower web 3 to which bar are secured thelower extremities of the rods 4 and 6, 9 an enlarged discharge openingin the lower web 3 and through which the rod 6 extends,

10 is a coil spring around the rod l and confined between the fingers 5and the web 3, the

function of this spring being to keep the rods and cross bar normally inelevated position with the cross bar blocking the opening 9,

11 is a lever extending horizontally from the cross bar through the sideof the canister, and 12 is any suitable eye block secured to the side ofthe canister for attachment to any suitable bracket (not shown) wherebythe canister may be secured in position convenient to a washbowl, all ofthese parts being constructed, arranged and operated precisely as isshown and described in the Letters Patent aforesaid.

In my present improvement I provide in the side of the canister a slot13 whose side edges are curved, and the lever 11 extends snugly throughthis slot so that when said lever is thrown down by the hand andreturned by the action of the spring the rod 4 will be reciprocated.vertically and at the same time rocked around its axis while the rod 6will be vibrated in addition to its ver tical reciprocations, thesemovements of the rods causing the agitator fingers to have both verticaland lateral movements through the powdered soap.

In Fig. 3 I have sh own a plain arcuate slot, but this may be variedbymaking the slot sinuous as shownat 14 in Fig. 4, in which latterinstance the vertical movements of the lever 11 will effect an increasednumber of vibrations of the agitator fingers.

. WVhen my present improvement is used the powdered soap will beagitated under all ordinary conditions and will be caused to flow freelytoward the discharge opening 9 so that when the lever 11 is forceddownwardly the ing into the hand of the manipulator.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a soap canister, the combination of 5 the receptacle forcontaining the powdered soap having secured therein upper and lowercross webs the latter provided with an enlarged discharge opening, thevertically disposed main slide rod extending loosely IO through saidwebs and guided thereby and provided with laterally extending agitatorfingers, the coil spring around said rod and confined between saidfingers and the lower web, the vertically disposed. agitator rod ex- 5tending through said discharge opening and provided with laterallyextending agitator fingers, the cross bar immediately below said lowerweb and to which are secured the lower extremities of said rods andadapted to nor- 20 mally close said discharge opening, the curved slotformed within the side of said canister, and the operating leverextending from said cross bar snugly through said slot.

2. In a soap canister, the combination of 5 the receptacle proper havinga discharge opening in its bottom and a downwardly leading curved slotin its side, suitable agitator rods extending up within the receptaclethrough the bottom thereof, the cross bar 0 immediately below the bottomof thereceptacle and to which the agitator rods are secured, a springelement for normally ele vating said rods and cross bar whereby thelatter will close said discharge opening, and an operating leverextending laterally from said cross bar through the curved slot in theside of the receptacle whereby both vertical and horizontalreciprocations will be imparted to the agitator rods and the partscarried thereby.

3. In a soap canister, the combination of the receptacle proper havingupper and lower cross webs and a discharge opening within the lower weband provided in its side with a vertically disposed slot whose sideedges are curved, agitator rods extending within the receptacle, a crossbar immediately below the lower web and to which said rods are secured,said cross bar adapted in its elevated position to close said dischargeopening, a spring element for keeping said cross bar and rods in anormally elevated position, and the operating lever extending from saidcross bar laterally through said slot.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY C. FAIROHILD.

Witnesses:

F. WV. SMITH, Jr., M. T. LONGDEN.

